Charlotte

The Men’s Shelter of Charlotte  continues to provide much needed services to the City’s homeless men. The shelter is currently housing upward of 500 men. However, the Men’s Shelter of Charlotte (MSC) is making great strides to help homeless men find employment and housing. Linda Miller, Community Resource Coordinator for the MSC, dropped by Praise 100.9 […]

Black barbers were once important community leaders. The Levine of the Museum South features Charlotte’s Thad Tate in it’s Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers exhibit. Tate was a founder of Grace A.M.E. Zion Church in Charlotte. He helped to start the Brevard Street Library which later became a part of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library System. Tate co-founded of […]

NODA Arts will present Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin In the Sun” on April 6 and 7 at 8 p.m. at CAST (Carolina Actors Studio Theater), 2424 N. Davidson St. Suite 113 (near Amelie’s). Tickets are $15. A Raisin in the Sun portrays a few weeks in the life of the Youngers, a Black family living in […]

The Oaklawn Language Academy’s PTSA will sponsor their first annual “Walk for Life” to benefit Charlotte’s Homeless. The school’s students, faculty and parents will do a  3 mile walk/run on April 14th and they’re encouraging Charlotte residents to participate in the event.  Chiquita Matthews, Board member and Marketing Chair for the Academy’s PTSA, stopped by Praise 100.9 FM […]

Source via: NEWSONE Curtis Glendell Mathews, pastor of one of the oldest Black churches in the south was arrested late Tuesday night and accused of arranging sexual trysts with a juvenile, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Mathews, who for the last 15 years has served as pastor of the Springfield Baptist Church in Dinwiddie County, […]

Source via: ELEV 8 Beckah Shae has arrived. Many of us discovered Beckah via “Love Glasses” Beckah Shae has had a Dove award nomination, two top ten hits on Christian radio, and she was even featured as iTunes’ “Discovery Download of the Week”! Before the limelight and fame, Beckah endured years of heartache. When she […]

Source via: ELEV 8 BET announces new auditions dates for the fifth season of Sunday’s Best and there also in a change in the judges. Singers Yolanda Adams and CeCe Winans alongside returning judge Donnie McClurkin! Read more

RAIN’s Trinity Project, The Red Pump Project ™ and CW Williams Community Health Center invite mothers, daughters and girlfriends of the Queen City to come out for free self-empowerment, HIV/AIDS awareness and education workshops and HIV/AIDS testing Saturday, March 10 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. at First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall (501 N. […]

What an exciting afternoon we had when the 44th President of the United States came by the Radio One offices…

First Lady Michelle Obama brought her Let’s Move campaign to the CIAA tournament on Friday. Students from David Cox and Nathaniel Alexander Elementary school participated in basketball and jump rope relays with Obama and Sen. Kay Hagan. Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx, Reps. Mel Watt and G.K. Butterfield along with CMPD Chief Rodney Monroe attended the […]

Source via: Elev8 The soul-stirring ballad features gospel legend, John P. Kee and Douglas’ next superstar singer, Zacardi Cortez. The single has been at radio for six months and just reached The Top 5 at Billboard. “One More Time” is one of the songs anchoring the solo CD debut, “Zacardi Cortez: The Introduction” (Black Smoke […]

Source via: NEWSONE Civil Rights activist and host of MSNBC’s PoliticsNation, Rev. Al Sharpton, will be gracing the pages of the April issue of Vanity Fair. Both candid and humorous, Sharpton gets personal, discussing everything from his weight issues to his bachelor existence and exactly how he got that hair — blame James Brown. Read […]